Congressional district · Boundaries of the 119th Congress

Connecticut's 3rd district

Connecticut's 3rd district has 724,628 residents on 474 mi² of land. It is represented by Rosa L. DeLauro (D-CT-3). Federal contract obligations attributed to it reached $3.2B in FY2026.

Residents
724,628
Land area
474 mi²
Counties
4
Representative
Rosa L. DeLauro
Map of Connecticut's 3rd district within Connecticut

Members for this district

Members who held this seat while these boundaries were in force, newest first.

Senators

The state's senators today, or on the last day of these boundaries for an older plan.

Counties

Share of the district's residents living in each county, and share of the county's residents living in the district (2020 census tracts weighted by their overlap).

  1. South Central Connecticut Planning Region68% of the district · 86% of the county
  2. Naugatuck Valley Planning Region20% of the district · 32% of the county
  3. Greater Bridgeport Planning Region7.3% of the district · 16% of the county
  4. Lower Connecticut River Valley Planning Region5.0% of the district · 20% of the county

Federal contracts

Contract obligations attributed to the district by each action's county and its award's ZIP code (land shares through census tracts); an estimate where ZIP codes cross district lines.

Obligations · FY2026
$3.2B
Per resident
$4,410
Rank in Connecticut
3 of 5
Contract actions
19.6K
New awards: 16.8K

By fiscal year

  1. 1BFY2017
  2. 987.6MFY2018
  3. 1.1BFY2019
  4. 2.1BFY2020
  5. 870.8MFY2021
  6. 902.6MFY2022
  7. 2.5BFY2023
  8. 2.3BFY2024
  9. 5.3BFY2025
  10. 3.2BFY2026

Top buyers

  1. Department of Defense
  2. Department of Defense
  3. Department of Defense
  4. Department of Defense
  5. Department of Homeland Security
  6. Department of Justice
  7. Department of Health and Human Services

Top recipients

  1. 12,193 awards
  2. 39 awards
  3. RTX CORPORATION$30.5M1.0%
    368 awards
  4. BRICAN, INC.$27.2M0.9%
    4 awards
  5. 1 award
  6. 6 awards
  7. 56 awards
  8. YALE UNIV$11M0.3%
    62 awards
  9. 1 award
  10. 4 awards

Other boundaries

District lines change between plans; each plan keeps its own page.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Congressional district boundaries and relationship files (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, Cartographic Boundary Files (congressional districts) and 2020 relationship files · release cd116+cd118+cd119 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • ZIP code (ZCTA) to congressional district crosswalk (U.S. Census Bureau)U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 relationship files (ZCTAs, tracts and congressional districts); shares computed by Analisa · release 2020 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Federal contract transactions (Federal Procurement Data System) (U.S. Department of the Treasury, USAspending.gov)USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS) · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.